Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1902 ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. ly Bee (without Sunday), One Ye: liy Bee ana Sunday, Une Year trated Bee, Une ‘Year Bunduy mec, Une Year. Baturday ¥s¢e, Une Year. Twentieth Century Farmer, One ¥ DELIVERED BY CAKRIER. e (withoyt Bunday), per copy... ally Hee (witheut Sunoay), per week...lic ally Unciudipg Sunaay), per week..17c bunday Hee, per copy. . . 0¢ kvening Bee (without Sunday), per week.10c Eveming Bee (including Sunday), Wi Al Daily Complalnte rof ‘irregularities 'in should ui’d‘amml to City Cire Department O¥FICES. A~The Bee Bullding uth Omaha—.ity Hall ty:Aifth and M Streets. Counetl Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—isio Unity Building. New York—Temple Court. Washington—wl rourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating o news and edi- torlal matter should be addressed: Umaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUBINESS LETTERS. Business lecters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Umaha REMITTANCES., Remit by draft, express or postal order, payavle to The Bee Publishing Company: Zcant stamps accepted in payment of THE BEE PUBLI STATEMENT OF GIRCILATION. Btate las County, Geo huck, secretary of The Bes ng Company, being duly sworn, the ae number of fuil and and Bunday Mee printed durin the month of July, 192, was as follows: 1. 1 y eliver. ulation ®Bullaing, Twen- eEERSEREENEREgE CABINET OFFICERS CAMPAIGNING. | opposition is due to the bellef that the The announcement that members of | proposed system of branch banks would the cabinet will take part In the con-| be destructive of independent banking | treatment of it will be most informing. | Attorney General Knox, it Is under- publican principles and policles, is sald to have aroused some criticlem at Wash. { party can see no proptriety in cabinet life are more favorably situated to en- lighten the people as to the views of the administration on public questions— able the people should obtain from the most trustworthy source, Becretary of the Treasury Shaw has already made speeches in which he dis cussed the tariff and the trust questions. It is presumed that he represents the position of the administration and this gives special value and significance to his ntterances. Secretary of War Root 18 to speak ip the campaign with the Philippine policy of the government as his special subject. There is no one better, it so well, qualified to discuss this question and there j8 no doubt his stood, will particularly discuss the trusts from a legal point of view and there is every reason to expect that the people will obtain a fuller and clearer knowl- edge of this subject from what he shall say regarding it. It seems to us there can be no reasonable objection to these officlals communicating to the public their views as to questions with which they have directly to do, of which they are well informed and which vitally concern the iInterests and welfare of the people. The head of the clvil service com- mission, Mr. Foulke, is reported to have expressed the opinion that it is the right | Information which it i& certainly desir- | gressional campalgn, In defense of re- | and would result in a bank monopoly | controlled in the east. The objections to an asset currency were fully and | Ington, of course on the part of demo- | Strongly stated at the convention of the fy| crats. The opponents of the republican bankers of several states held in Kan sas City some time ago. The feeling officials going on the stump in behalf of | throughout the west in this matter is that party, though no men In public | Very strong and it is safe to say that| few western representatives in congress can be induced to support any measure providing for branch banks and asset currency. WHY MERCER CANNOT BE ELECTED. Congressman Mercer's campaign man- ager has directed an open letter to the editor of The Bee, of which the fol- lowing is the substance: For more than twenty-five years I have read your newspaper, but at no time have |1 known you to stoop lower or resort to more pusillanimous and unscrupulous methods than since you opened your miser- able mud batteries upon the most eficient representative Nebraska has ever elected to congress. Your editorfal article entitled “Can Mercer Be Elected?” is so manifestly a Juggle of figures that I cannot think you mean it in earnest. You know Mr. Mercer's majority over Mr. Hitchcock in 1898 was 1,228, Why, then, de- liberately falsity the figures and utilize a blunder of the county clerk to show that Mercer’s majority was only 8287 If you will consult the official tables published in your own paper you will see that there has been an “impediment in your veracity.” Why not print the only figures which can be taken as a test of Mr. Mercer's vote- getting strength, to-wit: the relative majorities of Mercer and the heads of the republican tickets of the same year? Auburn-haired people get red under the collar on the slightest provocation. That s the only concelvable excuse for this inflammatory outburst. At this time of the year more light and less heat s desirable. Pusillanimous in and even the duty of cabinet officers to take part in political campaigns and that it is often particularly appropriate that they should personally set forth Total..ouiiiiniiinns Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales. Net dally average. 906,824 29,263 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst dxy of July, A. (Scal.y M. B. HUNGATE, otary Pubile. E————— . How lucky Morgan got home before Schwab set sall. How could the country #pare both at once? § er—— It is good political tactics for the World-Herald and democrats generally to boost Mercer. He would be an easy annrk. e——— One thing sure—Governor Savage will not charge that the latest reply of or- ganized labor to his insults was written in The Bee office. e 1 The committee appdinted by the Cen- tral Labor union to indite a letter to Governor S8avage evidently put on velvet gloves to soften the blow, e A Is not the trust representative from New York a little outside of the bound- ary line when he projects himself to the frout ia a transmississippl congress? Demand for space for agricultural ex- hibits at the coming Nebraska State fair exceeds avallable room. Nebraska's crop also exceeds all previous crops. —— British ralroad trains move altogether too fast to suit the shah of Persl It is clear the shah would not feel com- fortable on an American limited express. E——pwee——— Since the Missouri river has ceased to be a navigable stream on the govern- ment maps all hope of bringing the naval maneuvers lnland next time has been destroyed. ——— 24 The campaign work of both parties is slow in starting up in this state, but the same s true in other agricultural states as well. Politics can't get the right of ‘way over prosperity. The days are now one hour shorter in the morning and one hour in the evening than they were June 21, but August usually winds up with hot ‘weather for all that. — The Boers in South Africa have a megro problem to grapple with. If they ‘want pointers on suppressing the negro vote by the grandfather clause, almost any of our southern states can furnish them, Members of the park board are bring- ing back with them from their summer wvacation toure lots of good ideas for park embellishment, The money to carry these ideas into execution, how- ever, will have to be raised here in Omaha. r———— More acreage planted to sugar beets in Nebraska this year than ever before and if the yleld corresponds the output of the three beet sugar factories will be nearly 2,000,000 pounds more than last year. Don't underestimate the impor- tance of the sugar beet. ey Bo it is the responsibility rather than the work of president of the steel cor- poration that is undermining Mr. Schwab's heglth. ‘It can't be that the responsibi is any greater than other men hav but Mr. Schwab is not used - his_initiation has pro- ceeded too ‘fast. August 28 s the dhte set for the gen- eral reduction In grain rates to take effect on the Great Northern and North- ern Pacific, as agreed to by Jim Hill in his conference with the Puget sound farmers. No date has been set for any rate reductions on the rallroads travers- ing this section of the country. s John N. Baldwin says he is ready to the reasons which justify their own political or official action and that of the administration of which they are a part. ‘We think anybody who will consider the matter fairly must concur with this. As Mr. Foulke correctly argues, cabinet officers are political appointees and are thus to be distinguished from men ap- pointed under civil service rules without political influence, and who, therefore, ought not to express any opinlon upon political problems. The objection to the participation of cabinet officers in a campaign that it is Injurious to political dignity and propriety is hardly worthy of serlous consideration. ‘Ihere is noii- ing in the position of a member of the cabinet that should require him to hold aloof from the discussion, on the stump or elsewhere, of public questions. He is hedged about by no dignity that im- poses such restraint. ' It 1s understood that the members of the cabinet who will take part in the congressional campaign do so with the approval of the president, if not indeed on his suggestion. At all events there is no impropriety in their public discus- sfon of principles and policles in the carrying out of which they have an im- portant part. A MISTAKEN POLICT. It appears certain that an urgent effort will be made at the next sesslon of congre: for legislation that will change the monetary situation in the Philippines. It has been pretty comclu- sively shown that it was a mistaken policy to leave the conditions there un- changed instead of providing, as was done In the bill that passed the house, for placing the currency in the archi- pelago on a gold basis. The statements that have come from the business In- terests at Manila since the passage of the Philippine act testify to the great disadvantages under which trade is now being carried on by reason of the bad currency system and no doubt congress will be supplied with complete informa- tion in regard to this soon as it meets. d Meanwhile the tariff plan seems to be working fairly well, so far as revenue is concerned. It is stated that the cus- toms receipts, instead of falling off un- der the decreased tariff, as some ex- pected, are lncreasing and are better now than for some time. This belng the case it may be found expedient to fur- ther reduce the tariff, though this is not likely to be done for several years. The permission given to the Philippine cow- mission te fix the rate of exchange every ten days is sald to have proven beneficlal, but such a plan canunot be permanently satisfactory and the ouly proper policy Is to establish the gold basis. In no otheér way can there be secured that financial stability which is absolutely necessary to the commercial deveiopment of the islands. OPPOSED TO ASSET CURRENCY. The bankers of Wisconsin are op- posed to an asset currency and also to branch banks. At the recent meet- ing of their assoclation resolutions were unanimously adopted declaring opposi- tion to all legislation tending to the substitution of branch banks for our present Independent system of banking and also to any law tending toward the substitution of asset currency for the present natiomal bank ecirculation. It was declared that the prosperity of the country is largely due to the excel- lence of our financial system, the sta- bility of our financial lnstitutions, the unequivocal adoption of the gold standard and the practical abandonment of the contention for a change to a sil- ver basis. The attitude of the Wisconsin bankers is in accord with the general sentiment of western bankers. With practical unanimity they are opposed to branch | stend tridi " at North Platte on the | banks and to & bank circulation based charge of ;rovoking a disturbance of | on general assets. An eastern paper the peace. Bui why should Johu N.|says the opposition to branch banking Baldwjn of Iowa come to North Platte | is the opposition of bankers who are -or any other town In Nebraska to regu- | getting exorbitant rates of Interest to plain Anglo-Saxon means cowardly, There has been nothing cowardly in the treatment of Candidate Mercer. He has not been bombarded by miserable mud batteries, but by missiles that go home to the main question, whether he 18 or is not entitled to a nomination for a sixth term in congress. Mercer's manager is very tender and touchy. Has he seen the cartoon ex- pressly drawn for Mercer by his Wash- ington artist and turned out in the print shops of Washington, his real home, for circulation in this district as a campalgn document? On that cartoon Mr, Mercer's superb figure appears looming up upon & horizon full of publie buildings and his eagle eye s scornfully directed at three small cnrs, tha foremost repre- senting the editor of The Bee and the two hindmost his republican competitors in the congressional race. Perhaps Mr. Mercer's campalgn man- ager 1s not aware of the fact that the mud batteries of the Washington Post are belching forth scurrilous cartoons for the benefit of Mercer, the last of which represents the great omnibus bullding man emptying a jug labeled “Rosewater” Into the sewer. These cartoons fairly represent Mr, Metcer's ideal of dignitied, gentlemanly cam- paigning, which was also forcibly ex- hibited in Omaha by Willlam F. Gurley in the now historic debate. When asked to enlighten the public about Mercer’s record on public issues and his attitude on important questions, Gurley derlsively sought to demolish the editor of The Bee by virulént personalities, ending up by pronouncing the scathing sentence that he should be clothed in rags, wear wooden shoes and retire for the balance of his life to the woods. That magnanimous banishment of an offensive partisan represents Mr. Mer- cer's high ideal. Surely he would not try to repudiate Gurley, who spoke for Mercer and stood for Mercer. And now about those juggled figures. Mercer's munager asserts that ‘“‘the editor of The Bee knows that Mercer's majority over Hitchcock in 1898 wi 1,228."" The editor of The Bee does not know anything of the kind. On the con- trary, he stands by his figures and will pay $100 to any charitable institution in Omaha Mercer may designate it the figures quoted in The Bee regarding Mercer's majority in 1898 are not cor- rect, taking the official report of the secretary of state for the year 1898 and the Nebraska legislative Blue Book for 19000 as authority. Mercer’'s manager insists that compari- sons should be lustituted between Mer- cer and other republican candidates run- ning during the same years. Such com- parisons would by no means afford a correct criterion of Mercer's availability this year. It is true that Mercer's vote increased from 11,488 in 1802 to 16,2 in 1900, but he forgets to note that the total vote of the district has increased from 25,000 to 31,450 between his first and last elections. He forgets that the democratic vote cast in 1802 for George W. Doane*was only 10,388, while the vote cast for Edgar Howard in 1000 was 14,807. He forgets that if Hitcheock had received the vote in 1898 that was cast for Edgar Howard two years later he would have been elected by a larger majority than Mercer received in 1900, Mercer's irate manager persistently ignores the fact that with the unanimous pport of his party in a presidential mpaign year Mercer's majority in 1900 was just 1,470 and that a change of 736 votes would have defeated him. More than 12,000 wageworkers in Omaha and South Omaha will vote at | the next election. A couservative esti- | mate of the number of workingmen who | vote the republican ticket in this district is 3,000. Unless a revolution of public sentiment takes place within ninety days, which is not likely to happen, Mevcer would lose at least four-fifths of that vote, not counting professional men, merchants and farmers who are in sym- pathy with workingmen and vote as they do. But if Mercer had not ag- gravated and exasperated the working- men hy his open alliance with John N. Baldwin and the rallroad corporations, be still would be sure to lose anywhere late labor troubles any more than Wil- | an increase of the amount of loanable liam A. Plnkerton of Illinols? Have we | capital in their section. This is a mis- - mmfinummy representation, the fact being that the \ from 1,000 to 1,500 votes in the district by the revulsion that has taken place in public sentiment within the last two years as to his clalms and aspirations. To make this declaration may be pusillanimous, but it Is a stubborn fact. If the republicans of the Second con- | gressional district want a republican to represent them In the next congress his name will not be Mercer. The commissioner of internal reveaue is losing no opportunity to construe all disputed points in the new oleo law against the oleo man and in favor of the dairy product. This has been the case in his rulings on coloring matter and again in his decision on the amount of the license tax required of whole- salers and retallers deallng in oleo. If the law does not accomplish its purpose it will be because of inherent defects and not because of any disposition on the part of the internal revenue office to let the oleo mkers down easy. Just to make It easler to find rhymes in his think tank, the Lincoln Journal poet laureate has taken the liberty of abbreviating the name of the fusion candidate for congress In the First Ne- braska district from Hanks to Hank. In the amenities of the campalgn many things are permissible, but we protest that this s carrying poetic license al- together too far. With a lttle more effort, words can be made to rhyme with Hanks as well as with Hank. ‘The new police board has struck sev- eral snags. Mercer wants the boara to help him carry the Third ward, which favors the wide-open policy, and he does not want the board to do anything that would lose him the church element in the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth wards, which does not want things wide open. ‘What would it profit Our Dave to cap- ture the Third ward if by so dolng he loses all the others? e The local organ of our non-resident congressman, which is also run by a non-resident, s beginning to hedge. A few weeks ago this sheet was certain Mercer had the republican nomination in his vest pocket and would be re- elected without an effort. Now it is throwing bouquets at the democratic can- didate for congress Straws show the way the wind blows. 4 ] If the Real Estate exchange can bring about an amicable settlement of the Union Pacific rallroad strike it will put a feather in its cap. But as a matter of fact no mediation or arbitration by outside parties is necessary. President Burt can settle the strike in ten minutes by the watch whenever he is so dis- posed. —— Too Muck Prosperity. New York World. Prosperity has produced a shortage of school ma'ams in Nebraska. Fathers are #0 well to gdo that daughters won't work. Adversity is not only the best teacher, but the best producer of teachers. Calamity Howlers Out of a Job. Baltimore American. The western ¢¥op¥ are expected this year to break the record, prosperity is staring the farmer. in the #ace, and there does mot appear to be anything in sight to soften the consequent blow to the professional pessimists and calamity howlers. There Are Several Others. Chicago Tribune. ““With warrants put for the arrest of the governors of California and Rhode Island, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, “the guber- natorfal office seems to have fallen into disrepute.” It does, it does. only examples. Angd those are not the No Political Capital There. ‘Washington Post. The coal operators have given it out good and strong that there will be no chance for any of the politicans to make any capital out of the present strike so far as they are concerned. How it will annoy the politiclans to bave thelr mo- tives impugned in this brutal manner. Missouri Shows 'Em. Baltimore American. It has just been decided in Missour! that tobacco 18 & necossity of life. This judgment appears to be based upon the ground that a thing becomes a necessity from the propor- tion in which it is badly wanted, and not exclusively because one could not live with- out it. The dictionary is not, under this ruling, an infallible an authority as to defini- tions. o Up the M Washington Star. The coal eperators are, of course, at lib- erty to conduet their business in their own way, 80 far as they can. But when the public is dependent on them for fuel it looks as if they ought to be required to conduct their business In some way. So- clety is not interested In any sentimental objections to trades unionism which they may entertain. o in Cuba. Chicago Post. Dramatic art as practiced in Havana should be given the close attention of Min- ister Squires. The present theatrical suo- cess 1s entitled “Cuba in the Year 2000" and deals disrespectfully with the Platt amend- ment. The cimax comes when the leading man steps before the calcium, tears up the amendment and exclalms, “Now we have done away with the amendment, we are a free people once more!” Which 1s, of course, highly satistactory from & dramatic point of view, but undeniably ungrateful | and seditious from the standpoint of interna- tional relations. VINDICATION FOR THE BOERS. Charges of Oruelty Discredited by the British Kin, Detroit Free Press, The charges of Boer cruelty to British prisoners, which filled the columns of the jingo press of Great Britaln for nearly two years, have been blotted out by a per- son of no less suthority than Bdward VIL In his address to the Boer xe ls the king expressly thanked them for “the con- sideration and kindness” with which they treated the British wounded. This could have been mo perfunctory compliment on the part of his majesty. He would be the last man in the world to gloss over bar- barous treatment of his own soldiers by the use of conventional white lies in the pame of “good feeling.” The rellability of the king's sources of information will hardly be questioned and the thanks which he conveyed to the Boer generals should md forever the slanders that were set in circulation by the unserupuious. The Boers proved themselves great in war; they seem deierwined to prove themselves aqually great In peace, and there |s no blot on their ‘scutcheon. It may be doubted if any people In the history of the world ever arose more magnificently from obscurity or sustained themselves more creditably | after they had lifted themselves up. B The Art of Unloading OPPOSED TO THE RANK TRUST, I Wentern Bankers Frown Upon the oh Bank Scheme. Ordinary people may be excused for a certain bewilderment in contemplating the operations of “high finance” nowadays. Even a plain man can understand what Disraell called “the sweet simplicity of the 3 per cents,” but wher it comes to such complicated flotations df variegated securi- ties as we are now seeing every day, the enormous mass of them, with their intricate methods, might well make the observer cry out, with the seller of revenue stamps who was perplexed at Mr. Gladstone’s alterations of the law, “He s too much for my head.” Yet the patient spectator gets now and then a gleam. He perceives a sort of rationale running through all the manipulation of watered securities. Perhaps he cannot quite put the thing in words himself, but he Joytully sees the point when some veteran banker or experienced broker tells him pri- vately, “Yes, my son, you are on the right track. The whole art of hundred-million finance Is the art of unloading.” As razors of the tale were not made to shave, but to sell, &0 the highly capitalized industries of the day are primarily in- tended to unload. Only the other morning, for example, we read of the successtul dis- posal of the Bethlehem Steel company to the United States Shipbullding company. We are not bound to accept the published figures of the sale literally correct. The water may have been 40 to 60 per cent; the paper profits $5,000,000 or $20,000,000; the principle remains the same. It s, that the owner of the Bethlehem company did not acquire it to hold or operate, but to dispose of. His original Intention, unless all the reports at the time were mislead'ng, was to unload it on the United States Steel corporation. But diis aliter visum, which, being interpreted, means that Morgan would not have it. Thereupon the ingenious seller discovered that the corporation whioh really needed fiis plant was the shipbullding, not the steel trust. Mr. Schwab cleverly adopted the verse of Matthew Prior, with slight alterations, and sang: The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name; The steel trust serves to grace my measure, The shipbullding’s my ‘real flame. But, of course, the finf unloading has to be done on the investing public, and there' the rub. It s all very well for corpora- tions and banks to pass on the Inflated securities from one to the other, but ail 1s in unstable equilibrium unless a final New York Evening Post. resting place be found in the small pur- chaser, who cannot, in turn, unload. So the great quest of speculative finance is the private investor; the widow with emall savings; the olergyman with a tidy sum lald up for a rainy day; the executor with trust funds to place where they will yield a secure return for the orphans under his guardianship. “Oh, that I knew where I might find him,” ts the sigh of the would be unloader, longing for the small buyer, in great numbers, but not of too great perspicacity. The art of running him down, of soothing him, and of inducing him to take a part of the load on his unsuspecting &houiders—he who has thoroughly mastered that strategy is the true Napoleon of finance, for he alone Is In & position to reap the ultimate fruilts of victory. Of what avall is it to have heaps upon heaps of common stock, which you got a bonus, unless you can unload? Unfortunately, there are sometimes too many unloaders. This leads to very curious resulte. Concerns with much watered stock which they are anxiqus to part with, have been known to say hard things of new consolidations that suddenly come forward to throw their fresh mass of securities upon the market. It is like confusing gudgeons with too great a profusion of bait. How can the stupld creatures be expected to bite, if they see tempting morsels dangling on every side? The suddenly conservativi views about the folly of overdoing the business, whioh some speculators have de- veloped, are not a little comic. They are indignant at the reckless over capitalization of other enferprises, as long as thelr own dlluted stock remains unsold. They are eloquent on the Insensate course of disturb- ing the money market, and straining the absorptive power of the purchasing public by attempting to float fresh millions of se- curities before their own are unloaded. Such jealousies are, however, natural in the celestial minds of promoters. When they fairly jostle each other in their eager- ness to find a safe place to dump their loads, they can soarcely be expected to agreo ke birds in their little nest. All that we say is that if these recriminations between the loaded are leading to sounder financial views, a general breakdown in the vast plans of unloading—and It is not im- possible—would do still more to promote saner and more stable conditions. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripp! on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. New York s planning the construction of & “grand boulevard and concourse” which will surpaes the famous Speedway along the Hudson and be the most magnificent drive- way in the world. One million dollars have been appropriated to start the work. The driveway will be five miles long and have an average width of 182 feet. When com- pleted it will afford a continuous driveway up and through Central park to Seventh avenue, up Beventh avenue to the Central bridge and across OCentral bridge to the entrance of the Comcourse. it is proposed to connect the bridge and the entrance to the driveway by an immense teel structure which will extend to River avenue, where it will change to a solid ap- proach with masonry walls and ornamental parapets. From the entrance the drive will be along the boulevard to Mosholu parkway, thence to and around Jerome park reservolr, to Aqueduct avenue, to Washington bridge, to Boulevard and Riverside drive, to and through Riverside drive, back to Central park. It will make a picturesque and di- versified drive fully twenty-four miles in length and for the greater part at an elo- vation commanding & beautiful view of the surrounding territory. Dwellers in apartment houses in the borough of Manhattan received the follow- ing notice last week, says a New York dQispatch: “Because of the scarcity of hard coal suitable for use in apartment hous we will be obliged to diminish the fue for heating purposes ome-half during the coming winter. This notice is sent with the understanding that other landlords have sent similar notices to their tenants.” There 18 not 1ikely to be many house warm- ings among the flat population of Gotham this winter. In proceedings for legal separation of a man and wite, now pending in one of the local courts, one of the allegations of the aggrieved husband, and altogether the strongest of those embodied in his aM- davit, is that the wife insisted upon re. taining a singing servant girl in the house ana that her singing established conditions which were Intolerable. Assuming the facts to be as stated, the sympathies ot the average citizen will go out to the man who seeks to erect a legal barrier between his tortured ears and the musical domestic who insists on singing when hired for other and more useful services. Spontane- ous melody indicates a contented and even joyous disposition, but its effect upon one compelled to listen to it at unseasonable times and under unfavorable conditions is lly that which lately prompted a west- ern editor to insert in his columns a per- sonal to the following effect:. | “If the young man who plays the flute | evenings somwhere in the nelghborhood of our office will sit within reach of our fire hose when we have steam up he will hear of something to his advantage.” . The government buildings on Ellis island, where immigrants are sorted and sized up, are provided with “roof gardens” for the comfort of the newcomers. These roofs are tled around for safety, awned over for shelter and provided with benches and chairs. “Up there,” says the Brookyn Bagle, “those whom Uncle Sam finds it necessary to detain outside of his g il he ia sure that they deserve admission have a fine breezy playground these hot days and enjoy & view second to that of no' harbor and bay in the world. From tbis| afry height they may view, as Moses of old from his mountain, the promised land; many of them, alas! llke Moses of old, destined never to enter in and take possession. “For on one wing is the garden of the de- talned,’ on another the garden of the ex- cluded. Uncle Sam has not yet reached the benevolence of & vaudeville show for the en- tertalnment of these wayfarers who are knocking at his gates, yet those who are in & position to know will tell you that it is a continuous performance up there, turn after turn of romance, of tragedy, of comedy, of humor, pathos, of heart interest. It is &/ perpetual unconsclous vaudeville, with no| set program, with a merciful absence of | coon songs and black face comedia costumes which no professio vent and ‘acts’ which the most hardened stage eritic could not foretell.” In his weekly letter on New York affairs the veteran Joe Howard dashes off a chunk of sympathetic comfort for victims of hay fever. Listen: A prevalent disease just now is hay fever. Irritating and awful @as It s, there is something admirable and suggestive in the metbodicity of it. Per- sonally T have had it as guest and master every August and September for twenty- six years. Every one who has it receives | circulate by the score as to cures. Don't bother with ‘them, fellow sufferers. They are & delusion and & snare. Nothing will 10 cure but the casket, and for that none of us is ready. It fs a providential peoullarity that every incident in life teaches some €004 lesson. This, If I were an orthodox minister, I could easily show by reference to lots of incidents in ordinary life. As it is, 1 call your brotherly attention to th fact that hay fever, coming but once a year, comes on schedule time and means business during its stay. Who has never lost & train by being ‘Just a trifie too Iate You and I have, but hay fever never lost anything. Time is its slave. Whose hand has never been stayed by pity and compassion. You and I have paused many times when on the verge of revenge, but hay fev ny ona for whom it had a grudge. How often we have neg- lected some plece of work, some duty, but find me it you can an instance where this queer nasal development has forgotten duty or foregone allotted work, for punctuality is a virtue and means much at all times. Ask a banker. He will tell you that rigid attention to time is a sine qua non, and he would tolerate almost any fault rather than have aught to do with a-man who took no note of time, and who never regarded the time when his note was due. Imagine a weetheart forgetting to be on hand when o' was ready for drive, theater or even church. With this in mind I sing the praises of hay fever, the king of punctu. ality, regnant in the realms of unneglected —though disagreeable—duty." PERSONAL NOTES. Dr. Charles Hunt, inventor and sclent of Belfast, Ireland, is in Syracuse, N. Y. He has just made bis 111th trip across the ocean. It is sald that Thomas A. Edison has never owned a watch. ‘“The one thing I want least of all to know,” says he, the time.’ George T. Beck, the democratic nominee for governor of Wyoming, is a son of the late Senator Beck of Kentucky. He i lived in northern Wyoming for many years. The emperor of Japan is a man of very simple tastes and rather democratic ten- dencles. He recelves his guests standing and talks freely with all his visitors as an equal. Mrs. Thomas Simpson of Hoboken, N. J., daughter of Major Morton, of the English army, has saved more persons from drown- ing than any other woman in the United States. Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff of Princeton university is about to set out om a walk- ing tour through Colorado, in which he will observe the social and industrial con- ditions J. B. Lippincott, a nydrographer of the United States Geological survey, is engaged in an interesting problem, that of making a stream in central California, known as King's river, pump its own water and so do double duty for irrigation and other purposes. J. W. Rout, a militiaman, has been ar- rested at Emporia, Kan., for wearing his soldler trousers while doing manual labor, ““These trousers,” says a local paper, “be. iong to_the Rout’s defense s that Philadelphia Record 10 bankers of the west profess to see in the Fowler banking bill to authorize | the establishment of branch banks an at- tack on the very life of all the western banks. At the recent meeting of the W consin Bankers' assoclation it was the al- most unanfmous opinion that the great | banks of the east would form a trust under | the mensure and monopolize the business; | that they would establish banks through- | out the country, lend money at lower inter- est than the present banks can afford to do ! business for and thus gain absoluts control. This, it was urged, would be followed by an asset currency, with subsequent depreci- | ation and all the evils of the French revo- | lutionary currency. It was suggested that | the desired elasticity could be given to the present currency by allowing the national banks to diminieh or Increage thelr circu- lation by depositing or withdrawing their government bonds as the need of currency | might require from time to time. A leading | Oahkosh banker warned the association that the City Bank of New York, with $500,000,~ | 000 caplital, would dominate this country t | it could have branch banks; that “it would | dlctate the tariff legislation, make or pre. | vent wars, own all the ships and rail- roads and mines and hold the country in the hollow of its hands." Evidently the western bankers do not be- leve in & bank trust in the control of New Yorkers. They fear the consequences ot 0 much power in & few hands. Yet in all the recent discussions of the trust ques- tion the bankers have been dlaposed to de- fend the methods by which the trusts hi monopolized certain industries, and have discredited the fears of the public that the trusts might use their tremendous influence to direot legislation against the people's Interests. There s no terror in an asset currency It it be based on a sufciency of assets, with sultable safeguards of redemption, nor in & system that would serve to equalize the rate of interest throughout the country. MIDSUMMER SMILBS, Baltimore News: “It there are two things I hate they are cats and alarm clocks.” “Sure; but it's & nice combination if yon can manage to hit the one with the other.” Chicago Tribune: ‘Has he confessed?" 4sked the ieader of the vigllance commit- -\ him. on_we string “Yes,” the other man answel “But he hasn't given us the conf told him to glye us. We're going to him up again.” Detroit Free Pre Irate Fether—Here you are, just come bacl college, you yong scapegrace, and the helght of your ambition 1s to smoke clgarettes. Algy Junior—Youah wrong, papa; ambition is to get sigawettes to smoke. y friend” said the spectacled, high browed, intellectual looking man in t! buggy, 't you do not know how to pr nounce foreign phrases I advise you to coi fine yourself to the English language.” Cincinnati Tribune: Gladys—Yes, she's a pretty sirl. but she hasn't s mind above er Hat Mabelie—Well, she couldn't very well have. unless stie stood on her head, could she Philadelphta Record: They had been sitting on the porch two hours, and the “‘Don't you know. girl, moving close ‘“‘that you remind me of a Filipino who h decided to stop fighting.” In what way?' asked the slow young don’t know what to do with your arms. Then the slow young man took the hint and gave them up. PASSING OF THE HORSE. 8. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald, Every little while they tell us that the horse has got to go; First the trolley was {nvented, 'cause the horses went low, And they told us that we'd better not keep raisin' colts no more; ‘When the street cars got to moting that the horses pulled before I thought It was all over for old Fan and Doll and Ki e was up and done for, my fcago Tribune: “DId you see a fox here?” demanded one of the men on eback, reining in his foaming stead. he went yit. When the bike craze first got started people he had no other and had to wear t] trousers or stay in bed, and if he stayed in bed he would starve. told us right away, As you probably remember, that the horse ad saw his day. People put away their buggies and went itin' ‘round ‘on wheels; There wero lots and lots of horses didn't even earn their meals. I used to stand and watch ‘em, with thelr bloomers as they'd flit, And 1 thought the horse was goin', But . aln't ‘went it Then they got the horseless carriage, and they said the horse was done, - And the story's been repated twenty times y Bdison; Every time he gits another of his batteries 0 §O, He comes whoopin' out to tell us that the horse, don’t stand & show, And you'd think to See these chauffeurs, as they go a-chauffin’, it Waa good:bye to Mr. Dobbin, u he ain't went vit. (K!oplll. git to fiyin' in the alr, I e ave n a-sayin’, that the his day, ldlam. old feller jist about an fe and watch the horses uff across the land, do, while the haulin' st And he'll mebby think ' 1 “Oh, lhe)’nllly the horse is done for, ul When the #'pose As we long horse ha crowds above him flis YOU When we review the completeness class of hose we are going to offer for long story short—we are going to g 9% to 1L Late Buyers of on sale now at $3.50. Brouning cure it. Whisky is an alleviator and 4 per cent cocalne spray is & help, but there is ] cholce of any of our 60c Fancy Hose at—pair... And there are dosens of patterns and colorings to select from—sises They can be seen in our 15th Bt. window. WE'RE AFTER With Another Friday Special-— FANCY HOSIERY. of our hoslery department and that one day, the question whether we are capable of writing an advertisement to do it justice—~but to make & you your And for those who are just plecing out on the suit untfl fall—will find same cholce ploking among the assortment of HIGH GRADE TROUSERS that are ' i No Clothing Fits Like Ours. K -3-@ Exciusive Clothiers and Furnishers, R. 8. Wilcex, Manager.